Custom Search Fields

[frankr]

I have read some of the docs now, and I still don't see much on Custom Search Fields.  Can anyone point me towards literature that will explain fully:

1. How to establish a List of custom search/index fields that will be collected for all of a certain document type?

2. How to establish a pre-configured search screen that has all those fields, so someone doesn't have to set that up every time via some special Advanced Search function?

Thanks.

[andy]

Hi

All properties are indexed according to the settings in the data dictionary.

By default, i.e. when you specify no indexing behaviour in the DD, then all properties are indexed atomically; content may be indexed in the background if the transformation is expected to take a bit of time.

Regards

Andy

[frankr]

That's not really what I asked.

There's really very little written on
- Custom Search Fields
- Pre-canning a Custom Search, so that those Search fields appear on a dialog, with the user having to set that up every time they want to do a search.

Can anyone point me towards an article explaining All the Custom Search abilities of this product?  It's absolutely critical to our evaluation and use.

Much appreciated.

[kevinr]

Alfresco supports Saved Searches (public for all users and private per user) and custom attribute searching:
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Advanced_Search_Custom_Attributes

Thanks,

Kevin

[frankr]

Thank you.  I'm reading that now.

I gotta say I'm hurting a little with the docs.  What is there is great.  But, it's very basic.  What I'm asking about is not something I'd call anywhere near Advanced. 

Either I haven't found all the docs, or I'm feeling I need a whole lot more. 

I haven't found a doc that takes me from the basic tutorial steps to a User's Guide that will absolutely, positively tell me about all functionality of the product.

I feel strongly that there's a Ton of function under the Alfresco covers, but I'm having trouble seeing what's under there.

[fschnell]

I feel strongly that there's a Ton of function under the Alfresco covers, but I'm having trouble seeing what's under there.

I support that. Documentation is far behind the functionality provided. I am sure Alfresco would be flying high would there be more docu, however, that may jeopardise their business model 😉

Frank